Virtual Data Protection Officer (vDPO)
Maintaining data protection compliance is more than a legal requirement, it’s a core component of digital trust. Our Virtual Data Protection Officer (vDPO) service gives your organisation expert leadership and operational support to manage data protection risks, maintain GDPR compliance, and build a privacy-first culture. Whether you’re navigating complex supply chains, managing sensitive healthcare data, or preparing for audits, our team provides strategic oversight and practical guidance.
What We Deliver
Our vDPO service provides end-to-end support—embedding privacy and data protection into your organisation’s operations, strategy, and governance.
✅ UK GDPR and EU GDPR Support
Ongoing guidance, policy development, risk assessments, and DPO-level representation for UK and EU compliance.
✅ NHS DSP Toolkit Assurance
Support for NHS suppliers and care providers completing the DSP Toolkit, ensuring alignment with IG and data privacy expectations.
✅ Third-Party Data Governance
Assessment and oversight of vendor data practices, contracts, and cross-border data processing risks.
✅ NIS2-Aligned Privacy Frameworks
Support for organisations aligning their data protection practices with NIS2 and other evolving regulatory requirements.
✅ Scalable, Risk-Based Service
Flexible engagement tailored to your sector, risk profile, and data environment—ideal for SMEs, healthtech, and regulated service providers.
What is AI Governance as a Service?
Data protection is no longer an isolated function, it’s a board-level concern, a customer expectation, and a regulatory obligation. Appointing a qualified DPO or equivalent is mandatory for many organisations under the UK and EU GDPR, yet sourcing the right expertise internally is challenging. Our vDPO service fills that gap, bringing experienced leadership, independent oversight, and operational insight to your privacy programme. By integrating data protection with cybersecurity, resilience, and governance, we help you demonstrate accountability, reduce risk, and respond confidently to audits or data incidents.
How We Work
Our support is scalable, discreet, and built around your unique regulatory, sector, and operational environment. We guide organisations through a structured, three-stage process:
Assess
We conduct a privacy risk review, mapping data flows, contracts, and governance controls.
Embed
We establish or refine your data protection programme, including policies, DPIAs, vendor due diligence, and board reporting.
Support
We act as your named DPO (where required), providing ongoing advice, training, breach response support, and regulatory liaison.
Trust.
Security.
Resilience.
Trust.
We embed resilience into every stage of your AI lifecycle. Our frameworks help you design AI systems that can withstand regulatory scrutiny, ethical challenges, and emerging cyber threats. We enable you to adapt, respond, and thrive in the face of uncertainty.
TMW Resilience combines cybersecurity expertise with AI governance leadership to deliver a holistic, future-proof approach to AI risk management.
Security.
Our AI governance frameworks are underpinned by industry-leading cybersecurity practices. We address risks such as data leakage, adversarial attacks, and model manipulation, ensuring your AI systems are secure and compliant with relevant data protection standards.
Resilience.
We embed resilience into every stage of your AI lifecycle. Our frameworks help you design AI systems that can withstand regulatory scrutiny, ethical challenges, and emerging cyber threats. We enable you to adapt, respond, and thrive in the face of uncertainty.
TMW Resilience combines cybersecurity expertise with AI governance leadership to deliver a holistic, future-proof approach to AI risk management.
Benefits & Outcomes of Using a Virtual Data Protection Officer
Demonstrable GDPR and DSP Toolkit compliance
Clear, actionable guidance from qualified data protection experts
Reduced legal, reputational, and operational risk
Integrated privacy and cybersecurity alignment
Testimonials
"We have worked with TMW on a number of projects, and they consistently offer realistic guidance and advice that translates complex legislation into practical solutions for our organisation. At the start of the relationship, they carried out a comprehensive audit of our current systems and then produced a clear, workable plan of action that has enabled us to be assured that our systems and processes are GDPR compliant. To know that we have Thibault’s expertise to call on, in the ever-changing landscape in which we operate, is invaluable."
Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber
"TMW's expert supported us with the professional knowledge to find the most efficient ways to deal with highly(extremely) strict UK’s data protection laws, regulations and standards. Since it was our first time to prepare the business in U.K. we found out that it's much more complicated than we thought and there are many things to prepare for the regulatory compliance. We definitely needed their (TMW's) support and we learned what type of certification we need to acquire and what needs to be adjusted in our product to avoid any risks that might occur. I recommend anyone who find it difficult about the regulatory compliance try consultation with TMW and deal with the regulation quickly and efficiently."
JCFTechnology
